Benjamin Chee Senior Agile Manager, Westpac

Benjamin Chee is a longtime Agile practitioner, having helped and mentored Agile teams ranging from fintech and telcos to academia and government, and continues to do so in a senior role for a major banking corporation. He has previously served in the army as an instructor with the combat engineers, and often draws organisational and leadership lessons from this experience as part of his Agile journey.

Since 2013, Benjamin has worked on over a dozen tabletop role-playing games, including the ENNIE-award winning titles Achtung! Cthulhu (2014), Achtung! Cthulhu 2D20 (2022) and Alien: The Roleplaying Game (2020). He also has over two dozen tabletop game credits, most recently as design lead for the Warfighter Mediterranean (2023) and Warfighter North Africa (2023) tactical card games, and co-designing the upcoming Eagle Leader (2024) and Fulcrum Leader (2024) air command games. In 2022, Benjamin was inducted into the RPG Geek Hall of Fame.

This lightning talk draws on 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons gameplay to explore how adventure teams self-organize, learn by doing, and build resilience through diversity. Through stories from the game table, it shows how D&D has embodied Agile principles in spirit and practice from the very beginning – and why reflecting on how you play matters more than the game itself.